Exhibition of specimens / by Dr. Granville Bantock.

  • Bantock, George Granville, 1837-1913.
Date:
1883
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Exhibition of specimens / by Dr. Granville Bantock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Reprinted from Vol. XXV of the ‘ Obstetrical Society’s Transactions’] EXHIBITION OF SPECIMENS. By Dr. Granville Bantock. The first specimen I have to exhibit is a small dermoid cyst of the right ovary which I removed from a widow, set. 32, the mother of two children. I have thought it might interest such of our Fellows as may not have seen an example of this form of tumour, containing teeth and hair. The cyst was filled with the usual characteristic sebaceous matter. The second specimen consists of both the Fallopian tubes with the right ovary, and affords an example of the condition which is known as hydro-salpinx or dropsy of the Fallopian tube. The left tube formed a tumour as large as a cocoanut, which occupied the left side of Douglas’s pouch, where it was firmly bound down and gave rise to great suffering especially when the bowels were moved. It was so tender that the patient could hardly bear any examination. In removing it I had to empty it of its contents by aspiration to enable me to apply the ligatures. The ovary was so bound down that I could not remove it. The right tube was as large as a hen’s egg and was readily removed with the ovary. The con- tents were thin and watery, resembling the washings of tea leaves, and presented microscopic elements in the form of epithelial cells derived from the lining membrane. I have now to show you a series offive fibroid tumours of the uterus, removed by abdominal section, constituting 'The operation of hysterectomy—variety supra-vaginal. 1. This specimen was removed from a single woman, set. 39, who had suffered more or less during the last two years. It had grown very rapidly in the last six months, and had caused her so much suffering that she could no longer earn her living as a pattern-card maker. Men- struation was irregular and scanty and had never been abundant. The operation was rendered very difficult by the adhesion of the omentum to the whole anterior and superior aspects of the tumour, as well as to the parietes.